Bluebirds worked in shifts to carry off the freeze-dried mealworms and barkbutter balls. The pileated woodpecker ate more suet. Brown headed nuthatches carried away sunflower seeds. A mockingbird has strong opinions about something. A pine warbler answered the lure of the barkbutter.
Toward mid day I started seeing a dragonfly patrolling the air above the pool. The body appeared reddish but the camera only caught an orange blur. My guess is Needham's skimmer. It drove off another dragonfly that I glimpsed in even less detail. The dragonfly never perched but a jumping spider posed on the chrome railing. A brown skipper landed on a daffodil leaf. I rescued some wasps and bees and a ladybird beetle from the pool.
Of all the seeds I planted this year, the first to show up was a yellow coreopsis. The butterfly milkweed emerged from the mass of mountain mint. Wind gusts ripped young leaves off the trees.
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